Session Schedule
Below is the schedule for Festival 2012. We also now have the 2012 program schedule--complete with session locations and descriptions--available to you as a PDF. We hope this will be helpful to you as you plan your time at the Festival.
Please note that your Festival name badge will allow you entry into all of the sessions and plenary lectures.
THURSDAY, APRIL 19
| 9:00 a.m. |
registration desk opens |
| 10:00 – 10:20 a.m. |
chapel service |
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10:30 – 11:15 a.m. |
festival sampler new attendee welcome session |
| 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. |
Where the Servants Dwell |
| 1:45 – 2:45 p.m. |
The Book of the Dun Cow (2.5 hours) Cultivating Curiosity: Amy Frykholm and Judith Shulevitz in Conversation The Discipline of Rest Kicking at the Darkness: Methodological Reflections Memoir Is Cheaper Than Therapy: Laughing at Your Life The Play’s the Thing: A Workshop A Reading by Luci Shaw Ours and Not Ours: Writing the Immigrant Experience |
| 2:45 – 3:15 p.m. |
coffee break |
| 3:15 – 4:15 p.m. |
Be Careful or You'll End Up in My Novel The Craft of Book Reviewing Finding a Voice: Character and Voice in Fiction Inspirational Fiction and the Promiscuous Reader Poetry as Worship, Poetry in Worship: Inviting Creativity into the Worship Experience Pooling Metaphors Overflowing A Reading by Maurice Manning What's a Platform, Anyway? Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul Write Your Life |
| 4:30 – 5:30 p.m. |
The Double Faces of Ambition: Luci Shaw and Jeanne Murray Walker in Conversation Getting Out of the Way: A Workshop In Motion: Writing Poetry for Children An Interview with Bruce Cockburn Listing Creation: Cosmogenesis and the Poem Teaching Without Teaching Telling the Truth in Love: The Tricky Bits of Writing Memoir What the Sabbath Does Writing for Documentary Film, Activism, and Social Media Artistic Collaboration, Individual Expression: Richard Michelson and Brian Pinkney in Conversation |
| 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. |
festival circles |
| 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. |
Reading Between the Lines |
| 9:00 p.m. |
open-mic poetry readings open-mic readings (undergraduate students only) That Evening Sun: film showing |
FRIDAY, APRIL 20
| 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. |
Beautiful Souls and Interesting People Finding and Feeding the Narrative Drive in Non-Fiction Writing Illuminating Grace: Marilynne Robinson’s Fiction and Faith An Interview with Jonathan Safran Foer It’s What You Leave Out: Finding a Book in a Stack of Poems Patient Poets: Writing and Healing Writing for the Elder Brother Yearning for the (B)eloved/(b)eloved |
| 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. |
coffee break |
| 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. |
Borrowing the Fictive for Poetry: How Imagination and Biography Can Blur and Shimmy Grumblings, Angry Conversations, and Sad, Sad Songs: The Art and Joy of the Lament The Magpie Form: Brian Doyle and Patrick Madden in Conversation The Pentimento Perplex: Memory, History, and the (Re)Construction of Childhood in Books for Young Readers A Reading by Tony Earley Rethinking Perfection What Digital Publishing Can Do for You The Word Needs Flesh: Sex and Faith in Contemporary Writing Writers and the Business of Creativity From Words to Image |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
Extolling or Exploiting? Facebooking the Past Century: Self-Portraiture in Poetry From Page to Screen: Adapting Novels and Short Stories for Film The Gifts and Claims of the Natural World How to Write It So They Will Come Lies, Whitewashes, and Cover-ups: Dealing in Memoir with Pain and Painful People A Reading by Aaron Belz The Theory and Practice of Trust: Writing as Prayer Crafting Characters with Honesty and Authenticity: Kathryn Erskine and Francisco X. Stork in Conversation |
| 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. |
lunch break lunch forums (12:45-1:45 p.m.) |
| 2:00 – 3:00 p.m |
The Book of the Dun Cow (2.5 hours) Divine Madness: Debra Dean and Luis Alberto Urrea in Conversation “I’m Not Making This Up, You Know”: Truth and Fact in Non-Fiction for Young Readers An Interview with Craig Thompson Loving Thy Neighbors and Teaching Them to Read Mixing It Up Living Fully: A Conversation with Ann Voskamp On Prayer and Faithfulness: Writing About Spiritual Practices A Reading by Scott Cairns When Throats Are Parched |
| 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
coffee break |
| 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. |
An Interview with Maurice Manning Journalizing and Sermonizing: A Dialogue Making Sense of Allah's Will Pastor as Minor Poet Paying Ferocious Attention Poetry in Its Place(s): A Workshop The Art of the Story That Evening Sun: film showing (2.0 hours) The Making of a Graphic Novel Telling the Truth? |
| 4:45 – 5:30 p.m. |
poetry spoken and sung |
| 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. |
gallery reception and book signing |
| 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. |
Casting Out Fear |
| 9:00 p.m. |
Bruce Cockburn concert (tickets: $25) poetry jam open-mic poetry readings open-mic readings (undergraduate students only) |
SATURDAY, APRIL 21
| 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. |
Caring for Words The Children’s Picture Book: A Cozy Collaboration From Inkling to Ink: A Workshop An Interview with Li-Young Lee Poets as Readers of Scripture Why Read Classics? Writing the Unrecorded Life Writing What We Don’t Know: Fiction as a Spiritual Journey Self-Transformation Through the Essay The Balance of Fact and History: Susan Campbell Bartoletti and Andrea Davis Pinkney in Conversation |
| 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. |
coffee break |
| 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. |
Alive in the World: Stories of God's Revolution The Book of the Dun Cow (2.5 hours) Community Expectations, Artistic Explorations The Evolution of a Poem An Interview with Leila Aboulela A Wider View: Writing About Faith from the Outside The Transformative Power of Story Wonderfully Made: Writing Poems of Awe |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
A Day in the Life: The Joys and Challenges of Publishing Poetry An Interview with Marilynne Robinson Invisible Books I Once Was Lost . . . : Writing About Faith and Television in the Twenty-First Century The Music and Dance of Words and Pictures Tensions of Voice and Style Truth Finds a Way The Writer as Reader The Poetry of Life: Susanna Childress and Julia Kasdorf in Conversation Publishing Books for Young Readers: A Conversation with Dinah Stevenson |
| 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. |
lunch break festival circles lunch forums (12:45-1:45 p.m.) |
| 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. |
Beyond Backdrop: The Role of Place in Fiction Creating a Spiritual Will: Passing on Wisdom, Values, and Stories How I Ended Up Writing About Religion: Not a Story of Religious Conviction An Interview with Shane Claiborne On the Pop Culture Frontier: Jana Riess and Nikki Stafford in Conversation Personal, Political and Prophetic Voices in Poetry of Faith A Reading by Walter Wangerin, Jr. Stewarding the Writer’s Vocation Surrender Your Treasures, Discover Your Story Looking for God in All the Wrong Places: A Field Guide to North American Ghost Hunting |
| 3:00 – 3:30 p.m. |
coffee break |
| 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. |
The Beloved (Writing) Community An Interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie An Interview with Clare Vanderpool Reading and Writing the Stranger A Reading by Kevin Brockmeier A Reading by Li-Young Lee The Wednesday Wars: A Reading (2.0 hours)Calvin Theatre Company
Navigating Faith and Work: Hollywood and the Writer The Modern Parable |
| 5:00 – 5:30 p.m. |
vespers |
| 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. |
The Magic and Craft of Fiction |
| 9:00 p.m. |
Josh Garrels concert (tickets: $10) |